ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that The Co-operative Group (Co-op), one of the UK’s largest food retailers, has selected the company to run its card payments processing operations
Responsible business charity Business in the Community (BITC), has announced a new Healthy High Streets campaign which will work with businesses to support UK high streets. The first four businesses to take the lead will be Boots UK, the Co-operative Group, Marks & Spencer
The Co-operative Group has confirmed it is to sell its Farms business as part of a wider strategic review of all of its businesses. It is also considering the future for its Pharmacy business. In a statement, the retailer said:
Young people, the hardest hit by recession, present a huge market opportunity and there is a chance to win their lifetime loyalty, according to Steve Murrells, CEO at The Co-operative Group. Addressing the 2013 IGD Convention, Murrells said targeting the
Like-for-like food sales at The Co-operative Group fell 1.1% in the first six months but the Group suffered a £559m loss overall a result of new write-downs in its troubled banking arm. Operating profit in food dipped to £117.4m In
The Co-operative Retail Trading Group has called for publishers of lads’ mags to put them in so-called sealed modesty bags or they will be withdrawn from sale in over 4,000 Co-operative stores. The move by all Co-operative societies, including The
The Co-operative Group, the UK’s largest customer-owned business, today announces the appointment of Rebecca Skitt as is its new group HR director. Skitt has 20 years’ UK and international experience in HR, encompassing both the fast moving consumer goods sector with Unilever
International and national figures have been announced as speakers for the UK’s leading conference that brings together directors, managers and executives of co-operative retailers from across the UK. The annual event – which takes in Birmingham from 22–24 February 2013
Tesco has matched grocery market growth for the first time since June 2011 and maintained its market share, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today for the 12 weeks ending 20 January 2013. Tesco’s sales
The Co-operative Group has today (Monday 28 January 2013) launched a new savings scheme trust, becoming the first retailer to protect customers paying into a saving stamps scheme. The trust, which claims to set a new benchmark in consumer protection
The Co-operative Group claims it will become one of the first major retailers to feature QR (Quick Response) codes on fresh produce packaging to give customers information on the food, its growers and recipes. QR codes will be printed on
Ethical plasters, designed by students from Bushey Meads School, are going on sale in Co-operative stores today (1 June 2011). The One Careplast plasters are the result of a nationwide competition to design the next One product for Global Ethics,
